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" When you're researching something for a movie, you get a very different kind of reaction than when you're researching something for an article for 'The New York Times.' "

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" Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living. "

Peter Landesman

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Fabrics

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" One way to test a picture's integrity is to turn it upside down - a technique used not only by connoisseurs but also by artists trying to see their work with a fresh eye. "

" I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible. "

" The trains that travel the Chunnel are massive machines. The Eurostars are bullet-shaped and a quarter-mile long. They are pulled by a 136,000-pound locomotive and move in the open air at 185 m.p.h. and through the tunnel at 100 m.p.h. "

" I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing. "

" What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon. "

" You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours. "

" Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference. "

" 14th- and 15th-century drawings are almost unheard-of - and as a result, they generate jealous desire among dealers and curators. Museums in particular value rarity and pedigree more than attractiveness. "

" I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy. "

" There was absolutely zero discourse between me or anybody at the studio with the NFL. None. The only exchange was one-sentence e-mails trying to arrange a meeting, before deciding to cancel the meeting. Period. End of story. "

" I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years. "

" The village of Polgardi is a dusty roadside settlement northeast of Lake Balaton, a resort area in western Hungary popular with German tourists. "

" What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL. "

Peter Landesman

Story

Learn

" I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on. "

" I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation. "

" My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources. "

" There's a constant dialogue going back and forth between the filmmakers and the producers. "

" I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood. "

" The story of Bennet Omalu is a riveting story; it's just a riveting tale. I knew from the beginning if I stayed close to that kind of storytelling and focussed on the character, then the other stuff comes along with it, and the message becomes baked into the journey. "

" As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories. "

" I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL. "

" Will Smith is the most successful money-making movie star on planet Earth, in terms of just how many people have gone to see his films, so Will is a guy who gets movies made. "

" The itinerary of most antiquities from their source - tomb, temple, quarry - to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed. "

" Each year, tens of millions of museumgoers walk through the entrance of the Getty, or the Metropolitan or the Prado or the Hermitage, and never consider the possibility of having to arbitrate for themselves the authenticity of what they have come to see. "

" I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life. "

" Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time. "

" I don't actually see that much difference between telling stories in journalism and telling them on film. The tools are very different, but the basic idea is the same. "

" Even the two novels I've written were based on true stories. It's how I'm wired - real life is fascinating and fantastical enough. The kind of journalism I did unpeeled lids from cans otherwise sealed. "

" Sony is the only studio without broadcast relationships with the NFL. "